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Plot summary
New Hampshire, 1840. Jabez Stone is a poor farmer whose bad luck keeps him broke, and his neighbors want him to join a grange so they can help one another. Congressman Daniel Webster, famed as a lawyer and orator, is writing legislation meant to keep farmers out of the hands of loan sharks. After a string of mishaps, Jabez declares he would sell his soul for two cents, and the Devil appears, calling himself Mr. Scratch. He offers seven years of prosperity and good luck in return for Jabez's soul, and shows him a hoard of Hessian gold until Jabez signs. The money pays off his debts. Jabez also meets Webster, whom his wife's family counts as a friend, and the two become friends, while Mr. Scratch works on Webster with an offer of his own.
Cast
- Frank Conlanas Sheriff
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- Hazel Boyneas Woman (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about All That Money Can Buy (1941)
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- Actor Thomas Mitchell, cast as Daniel Webster, suffered a skull fracture on April 22, 1941, when a frightened horse overturned the carriage he was filming in; production halted and Edward Arnold replaced him.
- To get the creepy sound heard when Mr. Scratch first appears in the barn, Herrmann sent a recording crew to San Fernando to record the sound of telephone wires.
- The preview print titled Here Is a Man, previously thought lost, was found in the director's estate and served as the basis for the film's restoration and a Criterion Collection DVD release.
- The film was shot on RKO's Pathé studio lot in Culver City on a newly built 33,000 square-foot sound stage, one of the largest ever constructed at the time.
